Le genre présidentiel

Matonti, Frédérique

doi:10.3917/dec.maton.2017.01

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“…This authority, too, is deeply structured by masculinity and femininity. In France, men who are rational-bureaucratic leaders ascending to the top are expected to be mavericks who can radically harness the power of the state, while expressing a voracious appetite for the feminine sexual object (Matonti, 2017). Inasmuch as current President Emmanuel Macron has claimed to be a new force in French party politics, he is almost a cliché of French hegemonic masculinity (Achin & Lévêque, 2017).…”

Section: Hegemonic Masculinity/femininity and Types Of Political Masculinity/femininitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rational-bureaucratic power especially presents women with the double bind of political power. The double bind entails the sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant, equation between hegemonic masculinity and power, and thus expectations that women perform hegemonic masculinity in order to appear powerful (Campus, 2013;Matonti, 2017). The supposedly disembodied nature of rational-bureaucratic rule is a fiction, since it emphasizes the masculine body and masculine attire.…”

Section: Hegemonic Masculinity/femininity and Types Of Political Masculinity/femininitymentioning

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A double-headed hydra: Marine Le Pen’s charisma, between political masculinity and political femininity

Geva¹

2019

NORMA

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Although charisma is more commonly associated with masculine leadership, Marine Le Pen (MLP) is a woman politician whom supporters view as charismatic. Combining theories of hegemonic masculinity, and hegemonic femininity, with Max Weber's typology of legitimate domination, this paper elaborates a framework for identifying how political masculinity and femininity are relationally structured within types of legitimate domination, including charismatic domination. I apply this framework to empirical analysis of the French radical rightwing leader and her supporters. Charisma, I suggest, is a form of political masculinity a woman can enact, but which allows for expression of political femininity. Drawing from participant observation data gathered on the French National Front between 2013 and 2017, and from interviews with party members, I show how activists viewed MLP as an admirably virile figure. Simultaneously, she was venerated for her feminine corporality, and her expression of feminine care, or caritas. Like a double-headed hydra, MLP was viewed as extraordinary due to her combined political masculinity and political femininity. Contra theories of hegemonic masculinity, MLP shows that a charismatic woman can perform hegemonic masculinity without being punished by supporters for doing so. Rational-bureaucratic domination, by contrast, is predominantly masculine, and allows for little expression of political femininity.

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Section: Hegemonic Masculinity/femininity and Types Of Political Masculinity/femininitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Hegemonic Masculinity/femininity and Types Of Political Masculinity/femininitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A double-headed hydra: Marine Le Pen’s charisma, between political masculinity and political femininity

Geva¹

2019

NORMA

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Twenty Years of Parité Under the Microscope in France: Parties Play with Rather Than by the Rules

Achin

Lévêque

Mazur

2022

Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas

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“France's (Kinder, Gentler) Extremist”: Marine Le Pen, Intersectionality, and Media Framing of Female Populist Radical Right Leaders

Snipes¹,

Mudde²

2019

Pol & Gen

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Although the populist radical right is generally seen as a particularly masculine and misogynist phenomenon, several of its parties have female leaders. The most prominent is Marine Le Pen, president of the French National Rally (formerly the National Front) and unofficial leader of the European populist radical right. Using insights from intersectionality theory, we posit that Marine Le Pen, as a female populist radical right politician, faces qualitatively different media coverage than both her female and her radical right counterparts. In this study, we analyze her media framing in two French (Le Figaro and Le Monde) and two U.S. (New York Times and Wall Street Journal) newspapers, focusing on the application of gender and populist radical right frames. We find that the “harder” populist radical right frame dominates the “softer” gender frame in all four newspapers, but, paradoxically, the combination of the two frames leads to overall less biased coverage of Marine Le Pen compared with both other female and other populist radical right politicians. In the conclusion, we discuss some of the consequences of the findings for the broader study of female politicians, most notably, theories of intersectionality and the double bind for women in leadership.

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Le genre présidentiel

Cited by 31 publications

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A double-headed hydra: Marine Le Pen’s charisma, between political masculinity and political femininity

A double-headed hydra: Marine Le Pen’s charisma, between political masculinity and political femininity

Twenty Years of Parité Under the Microscope in France: Parties Play with Rather Than by the Rules

“France's (Kinder, Gentler) Extremist”: Marine Le Pen, Intersectionality, and Media Framing of Female Populist Radical Right Leaders

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